A question about Authoritarianism

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by The Enigma

The description of what happened in that video is kind of a very short version.

I saw an officer acting very bully to the lady who was (as far as I know) legally in her rights.

He obviously didn't like the way she responded to his requests, but the law applies to all citizen, also to police men.

I didn't take that into account and I don't know if my FB-friend was doing the same not taking her rights into account when writting his post.

I admit my knowledge about which rights an American citiziens have is very low.

Markus

[Jeff-Groves]

Originally Posted by mapuc

I admit my knowledge about which rights an American citiziens have is very low.

You've just passed the first test to be a Cop over here.

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves

You've just passed the first test to be a Cop over here.

What !? does it not take more to be a policeman in the States ?

I was talking about these little small laws not the big one, like

Free Speech, free religion a.s.o(first amendment)

And

Second amendment

Markus

[vienna]

The "full" video was released just a couple of hours ago; I wrote "full" because there is some dispute about just how "full" the video released actually is:

The Austin Department of Public Safety released the 52-minute video from the July 10 traffic stop Tuesday night but now says it will release a DVD version of the footage because "some of the video that occurred during this conversation was affected in the upload" to the Internet, spokesman Tom Vinegar said in a statement.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/police-sand...ry?id=32615846

The video, released as "raw footage" shows some possible signs of looping and or inserts indicating possible editing rather than "raw footage". It is entirely possible the "flaws" are the result of some processing or upload errors (anyone who has done a good deal of video editing knows how artifacts can pop up in the process), so I'm giving the benefit of the doubt to the LEOs. However, there is still no excuse for the sort of bullying conduct shown by the officer, in any case...


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